State Rep. Alina Garcia, a Republican abandoning her seat to run for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has raised the most of five candidates in the race — and more than both Democrats combined, according to finance reports filed this week for the first quarter of the year. Garcia reported collecting $125,647 in her campaign account, […]
The first thing voters need to know about State Rep. Alina Garcia, who will not seek re-election after only two years in the Florida House and will run for the first ever elected Miami-Dade elections supervisor instead — is that she won’t say that the 2020 elections were fair across the U.S. “I can’t speak […]
From state representative to attorney to the pols to Elections Supervisor? That’s the track former State Rep. JC Planas, who has become the premier elections attorney in town, hopes to take. Planas, 52, presented paperwork Friday to run for Supervisor of Elections in 2024. A reformed Republican turned blue after Donald Trump won the White […]
Some of the Miami voters who signed the petition to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo have reported getting visits in the last week or so from young women who ask them to sign another form that, while it’s not clear right away, would recant their earlier pledge, according to several sources. That means that, even as […]
Like a rabid dog with a bone that’s too big for him to chew, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed yet another lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the transfer of the 1,900+ recall petitions against him to the Miami-Dade Elections Department post haste, as ordered by not one but two courts already. This is actually Crazy […]
The arguments have been made by both sides, now its up to the Third District Court of Appeals to decide if the city of Miami has the right to determine that the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo were late or if City Clerk Todd Hannon has to simply deliver them to the Miami-Dade Elections […]
City of Miami attorneys working on behalf of Commissioner Joe Carollo and against his recall prevailed in delaying the process some more Friday when the Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge that ruled against them on Tuesday allowed the city to keep the petitions from moving forward to the county’s Supervisor of Elections as they appeal his decision […]
Updated: The Take Back Our City group that wants to recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo submitted more than 1,900 signed petitions to the city clerk just before midnight Saturday after they were informed by the city on Friday that Saturday was the deadline. “We emailed them a drop box link then told them we would take […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has already shaken up the city quite a bit with his power grabs and grandstanding as the new boss in town — has introduced legislation that would limit the citizens ability to recall their elected officials to once per elected per year. This comes at the same […]
Former Miami-Dade Police Det. Fred Suco lost his bid to unseat Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia earlier this month by 341 votes. Garcia won-re-election with 56% of the vote. Or did he? Suco and his attorneys say that Garcia never qualified or was qualified illegally for the April 7 election because all but one of […]